POKERSTARS ANNOUNCES NEW LIVE POKER TOUR
The largest online poker site in the world announced that it was launching the Italian Poker Tour, with the first event for the new tour scheduled for June 1-7 in San Remo, the popular Italian Riviera tourist destination.
“PokerStars is really happy with the developments in live and online poker in Italy,” said Fabio Angeli Bufalini, Italian country manager for the site. “The record-breaking turnout for the San Remo leg of the PokerStars Season Five EPT [event] makes us hopeful that the PokerStars Italian Poker Tour will arouse huge interest in Italy and all over Europe.”
The IPT joins a number of PokerStars-sponsored tours, which includes the European Poker Tour, the Asia Pacific Poker Tour, the Latin American Poker Tour, and the Russian Poker Tour. PokerStars is also the official sponsor for the World Cup of Poker and the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure. Italian poker pros Dario Minieri and Luca Pagano are members of Team PokerStars Pro.
PokerStars.it, the Italian-only version of PokerStars, launched in October 2008 after the site was granted a license by the Italian government.
